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Le ciel peut attendre

Titre original : Heaven Can Wait
  • 1943
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  • 1h 52min
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Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Spring Byington, Charles Coburn, Laird Cregar, Allyn Joslyn, and Marjorie Main in Le ciel peut attendre (1943)
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
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Un vieux débauché arrive aux portes de l'Enfer pour passer en revue sa vie avec Satan, qui décidera s'il mérite d'entrer en Enfer.Un vieux débauché arrive aux portes de l'Enfer pour passer en revue sa vie avec Satan, qui décidera s'il mérite d'entrer en Enfer.Un vieux débauché arrive aux portes de l'Enfer pour passer en revue sa vie avec Satan, qui décidera s'il mérite d'entrer en Enfer.

  • Réalisation
    • Ernst Lubitsch
  • Scénario
    • Samson Raphaelson
    • Leslie Bush-Fekete
  • Casting principal
    • Gene Tierney
    • Don Ameche
    • Charles Coburn
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  • NOTE IMDb
    7,3/10
    13 k
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    • Réalisation
      • Ernst Lubitsch
    • Scénario
      • Samson Raphaelson
      • Leslie Bush-Fekete
    • Casting principal
      • Gene Tierney
      • Don Ameche
      • Charles Coburn
    • 98avis d'utilisateurs
    • 60avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Nommé pour 3 Oscars
      • 4 victoires et 3 nominations au total

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    Gene Tierney
    Gene Tierney
    • Martha Strabel Van Cleve
    Don Ameche
    Don Ameche
    • Henry Van Cleve
    Charles Coburn
    Charles Coburn
    • Hugo Van Cleve
    Marjorie Main
    Marjorie Main
    • Mrs. Strabel
    Laird Cregar
    Laird Cregar
    • His Excellency
    Spring Byington
    Spring Byington
    • Bertha Van Cleve
    Allyn Joslyn
    Allyn Joslyn
    • Albert Van Cleve
    Eugene Pallette
    Eugene Pallette
    • E.F. Strabel
    Signe Hasso
    Signe Hasso
    • Mademoiselle
    Louis Calhern
    Louis Calhern
    • Randolph Van Cleve
    Helene Reynolds
    Helene Reynolds
    • Peggy Nash
    Aubrey Mather
    Aubrey Mather
    • James
    Tod Andrews
    Tod Andrews
    • Jack Van Cleve
    • (as Michael Ames)
    Florence Bates
    Florence Bates
    • Mrs. Edna Craig
    • (non crédité)
    Scotty Beckett
    Scotty Beckett
    • Henry Van Cleve - Age 9
    • (non crédité)
    Clara Blandick
    Clara Blandick
    • Grandmother Van Cleve
    • (non crédité)
    Leonard Carey
    Leonard Carey
    • Flogdell - Van Cleve's First Butler
    • (non crédité)
    James Conaty
    • Man in Park with Top Hat
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Ernst Lubitsch
    • Scénario
      • Samson Raphaelson
      • Leslie Bush-Fekete
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    9bobsgrock

    Any other director would destroy this.

    Ernst Lubitsch, the great European director who immigrated to America and changed movies for the better shows his true light touch in this very original yet very charming story about one man's life and the changes and problems he faces. Don Ameche is perfect as the lead character, Henry Van Cleeves, a man spoiled rotten as a child but grows up and learns many things, mostly from his beautiful wife Martha, played by Gene Tiereny. However, the best role goes to Charles Coburn who plays the rough, frank, outspoken yet lovable grandfather who sympathizes with Henry and strives to make his life better.

    The kind of material here could have been used to make an epic story on the level of films like Gone With the Wind or Giant. Nevertheless, we see Henry's life in full motion, always moving ahead even when he is helpless to stop it. And Lubitsch's touch has never been more prominent, taking some scenes any other director would have made disturbing or unsettling and giving them a witty and comical feeling. It's a shame Lubitsch died so early or else we could have gotten more of these classic and moving stories.
    8jotix100

    Birthdays

    Ernst Lubitsch was a man destined to take the play in which this film is based to the screen. The results are amazing. This 1943 movie continues to charm audiences after all these years. Credit must go to the great Lubitsch who shows his light touch on this delightful comedy.

    Since the film is based on the play "Birthday", by Leslie Bush-Fedeke, the main idea behind the action is to present us Henry Van Cleve as he ages. The film opens as Henry is descending a long flight of stairs. He is an old man now. Henry meets an elegant man at the desk who will decide whether he will go down to hell, or to heaven. The story then goes back in flashbacks to show us what this Henry was really like while he lived.

    Henry Van Cleve is part of a wealthy family from New York. When the film opens Henry is celebrating his 10th birthday. This involves being introduced to a French governess who will transform the boy for life. Then we see Henry as he is going to celebrate his 25th birthday. This is a most important date for him because he meets and falls in love with the lovely Martha Strabel, a beauty from Kansas, that is his idiotic cousin's fiancée. Needless to say, the handsome Henry falls in love with her and they elope.

    Life has a way to get in the way of Henry as we see how he is handed tragedy when he loses his lovely Martha when she becomes sick. Ultimately, Henry himself, a mere mortal, dies after a long life that has been spent alone, living dedicated to his own son.

    "Heaven can Wait" is a lovely film. Much credit has to go to its stars, Don Ameche and Gene Tierney, who make an excellent couple. They were at the top of their careers and guided by Mr. Lubitsch, their romance, while sweet, it's not sugary. Ms. Tierney's beauty adorns this film and Mr. Ameche is seen at his suavest self.

    The supporting cast was a director's dream come true: Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Eugene Palette, Spring Byington, Louis Calhern, Laird Cregar, among others, give the film the elegance that Mr. Lubitsch used so well to enhance the movie.

    A classic that will live forever!
    7senortuffy

    Sentimental comedy from one of the masters, Ernst Lubitsch

    This is the last of a series of hit comedies Ernst Lubitsch made in the years just before and during World War II. Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), That Uncertain Feeling (1941), To Be or Not To Be (1942), and this one, Heaven Can Wait (1943), make up the core of a very successful body of work for one of Hollywood's finest directors.

    If there is one phrase to characterize the "Lubitsch touch," then I would say "light romantic comedies," the kind made popular by Hollywood in the late years of the Depression. His films didn't have the subtle commentary on American life that Capra's did, but were more along the lines of old fashioned entertainment.

    Heaven Can Wait is based on a play written by a Hungarian (all of Lubitsch's films during this period were written by European emigrés like himself, and as such have a more cosmopolitan flair than most American films). It follows the life of a Victorian playboy, Henry Van Cleve, of Fifth Avenue, New York, and is told in retrospective by the hero as he explains his life to His Excellency, the Devil.

    Don Ameche is the main character and delivers a fine performance as the boyish rogue who falls in love with a beautiful girl from Kansas City, played by Gene Tierney. The film covers Van Cleve's life from childhood through a reckless adolescence up through his happy marriage and the years after his wife dies. It's a sentimental journey told with much levity.

    The film has a number of terrific character actors in it, the most notable performance coming from Charles Coburn, who plays the grandfather everyone wishes they had - quick witted, caring, and always supportive of his grandson. Marjorie Main, Eugene Palette (the froggy-voice friar in Mark of Zorro), Spring Byington, and Louis Calhern make up the rest of the supporting cast.

    While I enjoyed this film, it's not as well-crafted as some of his earlier work. Perhaps the "Lubitsch touch" had worn itself out, and perhaps the changing times had caught up to him. Considering that the war was going on at the time, the film does seem a bit out of place. Perhaps that accounts for the lack of depth in some of the performances.

    I rarely bother to look up who the art director was in a film, but the visuals in this one were so striking, I had to know who was responsible. James Basevi was the art director (basically, the interior scenery) and was much used by Hollywood's leading directors of the time - Hitchcock and John Ford among them. The lobby of the waiting room for Hell was especially appealing in a 40's art deco way.

    This was the final hit film Ernst Lubitsch ever produced. He made a few more films in the following years, inconsequential stuff compared to his earlier work, then passed away in 1947, during a period when Hollywood was turning to the stark reality of film noir.

    By contemporary standards, this film is a bit light, but it's funny and touching in its sentimentality, and it's an enjoyable bit of entertainment from a bygone era.
    8jaredmobarak

    I can safely say that my whole life was one continuous misdemeanor…Heaven Can Wait

    Possibly my first true screwball comedy, definitely my first Ernst Lubitsch film, Heaven Can Wait lived up to the reputation of being a well made, laughter filled time. Sure it is a bit dated at times, but overall I believe the message and events occurring transcend age, probably due in small part to the fact that the film spans eighty or so years. Henry Van Cleve has passed away and knowing that he would probably have too much trouble getting into heaven, he decides to go to the place many have told him to go during life…hell.

    I really enjoyed the rapport between Don Ameche (Van Cleve) and Laird Cregar (His Excellency/Satan). Cregar has a lot of charisma and is a nice change of pace from most guardians of the underworld. He has a strict code of rules, not just anyone can receive eternal damnation; one has to have earned it in spades. The fact that Ameche is trying to get in quickly, so as not to have to worry, is great, especially since he has to prove why. Of course as many stories of this ilk show, it's the women of his life that he must speak of to explain why he has sinned. It's a shame that there weren't any intercuts showing the two of them in Hell sitting and discussing Henry's life. The bookends to the film are nice, but it almost seems a shame to have seen Cregar so little.

    Based on a play, Heaven Can Wait stands up well as a film. It is very much a dialogue driven movie, yet there are some great visual moments included as well. The script is great, sprinkled with dry sarcasm along with some laugh-out-loud moments and some surreal absurdities. Don Ameche is very effective as the Casanova who can't help himself even when he has the woman of his dreams. That woman, played by Gene Tierney, shows great comic timing to play off of the manipulative Ameche. She is a beautiful actress and can act very well. Tierney needs to play every emotion possible to show the ebbs and flows of their relationship while still retaining the love she has for her husband through all the tough times. Sure the whirlwind chance meeting which leads to their eloping is hilarious, and the rescue from Kansas plays out with almost a slapstick feel—especially between Tierney's character's parents and their funny papers—however, the real shining moment is their final dance together. Their love is displayed for all to see as they twirl in solitude while the rest of the party is seen through the opening between rooms. The moment is both beautiful and heartbreaking all at once.

    I must say I was a big fan of the film and will seek out more Lubitsch in the future. Trouble in Paradise, available on Criterion DVD along with this film, and probably his most recognized work, Ninotchka with Greta Garbo, tops the list to check out. A great script, talented ensemble cast (look for comic genius from Charles Coburn and his baseball bat in heaven) as discussed, and superb make-up work (Don Ameche as eighty actually looks like he did at eighty, see Cocoon and a more cynical take on his character here in Trading Places) are molded deftly together to create a nostalgic look on life and those that one touches during his time on earth.
    10oh madeline

    Lubitsch comedy masterpiece

    Do NOT confuse this comedic gem with Warren Beatty's 1977 film of the same name -- that was actually a remake of a different 40's classic, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan." But, this is much better, and even more imaginative. Ameche is brilliant, versatile, and amazingly handsome as the protagonist. Laird Creagar is excellent as Lord Satan, and Allyn Joslyn and Eugene Palette head a great supporting cast. One of the wittiest comedies ever made. Don't miss it.

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    • Anecdotes
      In a 1983 interview, "A Conversation with Don Ameche", he said this movie was the favorite of all the films he worked on.
    • Gaffes
      In the breakfast scene just before Martha (Gene Tierney) goes home to her parents, Mr. Strable is served a large second helping of pancakes. Moments later when the camera gives him a medium shot, the stack is gone and the butler refills his plate.
    • Citations

      Mademoiselle: In your papa's time, papa kiss mama and zen marry. But this is 1887! Time of bicycle, the typewriter est arrive, soon everybody speak over ze telephone, and people have new idea of value of kiss. What was bad yesterday is lot of fun today. There is a wonderful saying in France: "Les baisers sont comme des bonbons qu'on mange parce qu'ils sont bons." This mean: "Kiss is like candy. You eat candy only for the beautiful taste, and this is enough reason to eat candy."

      Henry Van Cleve: You mean I can kiss a girl once...

      Mademoiselle: Ten times! Twenty times! And no obligation.

    • Connexions
      Featured in 3 lits pour un célibataire (1989)
    • Bandes originales
      By the Light of the Silvery Moon
      (uncredited)

      Music by Gus Edwards

      Played during the opening credits and often in the score

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    • Date de sortie
      • 28 août 1946 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langues
      • Anglais
      • Français
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • El diablo dijo no
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Stage 3, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis
    • Société de production
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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